Tag: Budget

WEST PALM BEACH — Staff is recommending no increase this year in the city’s fire assessment.

A staff memo for Monday’s city commission meeting, at which the panel will set the proposed rate for 2014-2015, calls for keeping it at a flat $25 for residences and 1 to 10 cents per square foot for businesses.

A committee Friday narrowed from four to three the finalists to take over duties of West Palm Beach’s RMA’s Briesemeister was CRA director from 2004 until she resigned Aug. 26, saying she intended to apply …

“I’m humbled by the opportunity to get to serve the city,” Green told The Palm Beach Post Thursday, just before the formal announcement. “I’m very excited about the team we have, and we’re getting ready to do great things.”

“I am sure most people don’t have the time to go through the hundreds of dense pages that make up the actual proposed budget, but they still are interested in seeing what their city is doing,” Mayor Jeri Muoio said in a …

Employees, who haven’t had a raise in years, will get a little something under the tree during the holidays: $500.

At a budget workshop on Thursday, Aug. 22, City Administrator Ed Mitchell announced the city had found about $390,000 to use toward giving all employees earning less than $100,000 a $500 check, probably around Christmas.

Commissioners were in agreement; “We’ve had employees who have been faithful to us.,” Ike Robinson said.

City commissioners are pushing Mayor Jeri Muoio to cut employee salaries, starting with their own.

At Tuesday’s budget workshop, commissioners said they would eliminate a $5,000 stipend they each receive for secretarial help. Commissioner Sylvia Moffett proposed the cut. Commissioners receive a $30,000 annual base salary, but also receive a $5,000 car stipend and the secretarial stipend, even though the commission office has two full-time secretaries.